Archive for April 2012

Movement and gait.

Movement:
When viewed from the front should rise and fall, under shoulder. Feet pointing straight, not turning in or out. When viewed from behind the picture is similar. Forelegs move with a good, strong stroke. Hind legs move freely, with good mobility in the knee joints. For a typical gait, slight roll of hindquarters.

Comment. In contrast, bulldogs and Pekingese, whose front end is wider than the rear, and which have a tendency to “spin backwards” on the road, Pug moves differently. Gait must be springy pug and elegant. Movement of a pug is best can be described in such words as “rolling.” Free walk pug leaves a trace, slightly offset to the axis of the body. This equilibrium is reached. Pug as it balances around the center of gravity. When a pug makes the front leg, shoulder, for a moment, descends, and turns slightly swaying gait.

Proper motion pug

Limb movement will not turn inside, and the move is strictly a straight line. When you move from the hocks parallel to each other, they Postavy no cow, no barrel. When a pug comes towards you, it does not rakes legs and turns them.
Pug has to move around the ring on a loose leash and slowly. You can not run with the pug or the ring to drag him along on the leash taut.
Movements attach great importance to the examination at the shows. Even a properly built dog will not be able to obtain a good estimate, if not move correctly, and this requires the maintenance of a pug in show condition (do not overfeed and do not drain), and training. At the same time if the dog is badly built, it will move and the bad – no training, no quality content will not be able to give it a balanced movements.

Pledge of good moves – correct angulation between the humerus and scapula, and pelvic bone, femur and tibia. Correct angulations increase the scope of limbs, the proportionality of the lengths of the bones clearly contributes to the rhythm of the movement. Limb joints must bend and unbend easily and smoothly, providing a strong impetus to the hind limbs and springiness and elasticity in the front part of the body to absorb shocks by relying on the front legs. Movement of the front and rear legs must be coordinated.
Straightened angulation shorten the step, as if the bones, joints in scapulohumeral and hip joints, set almost vertically and form a junction with the excess unfolded corners – it inhibits movement, shortening the stem forward in front and weakening the impetus behind. In dogs with the structure of the step is shorter, and they are forced to do more steps to cover the same distance. As a result, their movement becomes hoduleobraznym.

Types of gait pug

Of great importance is the harmony of adding a dog. In other words, a dog with a beautiful long sloping shoulder blade will not look proportional if its hind legs are straight and depleted muscles. Conversely, a direct short paddle will seem out of place in a dog that has strong hind legs with good angulation. The dog should look proportional and harmoniously composed, but not exceptionally good in separate articles, but with serious deficiencies in others.

To move a vicious pace is an amble, when the dog moves forward at the same time introducing two left feet, and then two right. When the dog swings side to side, and topline softer in motion. Sometimes, to bring down the dog with amble, you just speed up the movement, but sometimes a gait is rigidly fixed.

Disadvantages. Any deviation from the mentioned items should be considered as defects, and the seriousness with which they must be taken into account should be in strict accordance with the degree of deviation.

Comment. This point is expressed very vague, and usually only judge decides is estimated to lack of seriousness. The standard provides some basic framework, which should contain the described specimen. In this case a lot depends on the general impression. Perhaps the experts simply overestimated the growth of an irregular shape of the tail or a dog of good type. It happens that the examiner pays particular attention to assessing the dog in motion, and even a slight deviation in the limb prevents the dog put a high estimate. It is here that all concepts are “not too”, “very,” “slightly,” “pretty”, “not” can be interpreted rather vague, and the same dog will be evaluated by different experts in different ways.

Notice. Males should have two apparently normal testicles fully descended into the scrotum.

Comment. This observation is common to all breeds. If the dog missing one or two testicles, if a testis is considerably smaller than the other, or there is condensation on the testes, the animal will be disqualified. It remains only to recall that the male with one testis is monorhom and female, whose testes into the scrotum has not dropped – cryptorchids.